Toil and Trouble

Ah well. Small victories, taken where you can find them.

It seems that I take one step forward on one issue, to take two backwards on another. It's quite frustrating.

Remind me again why I keep trying to reach out to my schoolmates?

Oh, right. Because it's a good idea.

Remind me of this the next time I start getting shirty?

Manuel

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Swimsuit it is. I will just stand by and say not a word and even fend off the enterprising salesclerks, if you so wish. How's that? :)

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That'd be good. Especially the sales clerk part - there are limits, and having some dippy blonde girl seeing the mess on my back is one of them.

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Gotcha.

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Oooh. I'm going to have fun. Because I can outdippy anyone when I set my mind to it. >:D

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Yeah, I saw that stuff.

Jamie I'd give up on trying - he's made it clear he doesn't want anything to do with you, and there's limits to how far you can push. Frenchie and Doug might be a better place to start, and hey, you're getting cookies already. *grins* Paige and Jane possibly as well.

And if anyone gives you grief for not being friends with everyone in this place, they're in some kind of fantasy world, 'cause I ain't friends with everyone here and don't expect to be.

*grins* And yes, you need to talk to other people than me - you're picking up my slang, and with that accent of yours it sounds way too weird. ;)

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Heh. I think this'll be entertaining...

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I'm refusing home-made cookies, actually. That wouldn't be right. She got insistant, though.

And I don't think I or anyone else expects me to be friends with everyone here, but having at least one or two seems to be expected. And they all seem to do it so effortlessly.

I don't like having limits.

And yeah, it seems that I am picking up your bloody slang. That's probably not a good thing. I don't have an accent. You folks are all mush-mouthed to my ear.

Manuel

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Wouldn't be right, how? Or is this one of those good manners things I seem to have missed?

As for how easy people seem to make friends... that one's a mystery for me. Never had the knack of it meself, but somehow I still managed. ~~Even when I didn't want to.~~ When I work out why myself, I'll let you know.

Their limits, not yours.

*giggles* You do have an accent. So do the Americans, and Frenchie and Shiro. And why do you think it's called "English"? It's our bloody language, after all, so we get to say the rest of you have an accent.

Besides, it's cute when you say "shirty". I'm just waiting for the day you say "bollocks", then you definitely have been spending too much time with me.

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Never mind the bollocks? ;)

And yes, it's a good manners thing. We'll bring you up to speed soon enough, although I doubt you'll like it much.

And is it _possible_ for me to spend too much time around you?

Manuel

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It is also bad manners to refuse a gift freely given.

In that case, which do you listen to?

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*laughs* Fuck, I've got this mental image now of you as Johnny Rotten in my head and it's not going away. *giggles some more*

And I've pretty much decided most learning isn't that fun, so it don't matter if I like it or not. I'd hate to come across as a rude bitch to the wrong... Oh bugger, I just had a thought. Your dad will be all fancy and that, won't he? *wibbles*

(And I'd say you're trying to charm me again with that last bit, aren't you?)

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Did you notice that all the Americans all have -different- accents?

A bit anyway? Jamie and Doug's are almost similar. Sam and Paige have that .. what is the term for that? Where all their a-sounds are elongated? Angelo, Jubilee, and Lorna all sound different, even though they came from the same state.

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On the value of the gift in proportion to what is lost in obligation to the giver.

In this case, a limited, valuable resource (home-made cookies) in exchange for - friendliness? A conversation? Pity?

Note that I protested, you offered again, and then I accepted. I just haven't been by to claim it yet.

Manuel

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will adjust. He's well-bred enough to come up or down to the level of the person he's trying to charm.

And I can't be Rotten - I've got this thing about inserting safety pins into my anatomy. Not really my style.

It will probably be refreshing and new if you stayed the gutter-snipe that you are when you meet him. Watching him flounder for a few sentences should be fun.

Manuel

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Not that limited. I can always get more. Talking to my mother, even with the obsession with Jeanne D'Arc is worth cookies.

Cookies are more valuable when shared. That is what they are for, secondarily. (First, they are for eating. Second, for sharing. Third for crumbling up and leaving in people's beds, but only ooky cinnamon cookies are for that.)

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I truly do not understand you people sometimes.

I never got cookies from either of my parents. And sharing them? Unlikely. Is that like a business meeting? I've been to plenty of those, and there was usually alcohol at the least, and food sometimes.

Manuel

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Your parents never gave you cookies?

NEVER?

Okay, you must understand that I am staring at my screen in disbelief.

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*nods* I had noticed that. Then again, I come from a place where accents change from village to village in some counties.

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Nope.

Never.

That's not the way we were. If I was a good boy, I could sit in the corner while Alphonso met with the King, or if I was extra-good, I could go play with the Crown Prince.

Or I could go for swims in the Med, or go out to a club, or something like that.

Cookies? I don't think so.

Manuel

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Really not wanting to rub it in anyone's face or anything, but not everyone gets brought up the same way.

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We have differences, but I do not think they are quite so obvious.

Then, perhaps I am not the best judge of Frence accents, as I cannot hear my own. Doug likes to try to point it out and imitate it from time to time, and that helps, but I still can never -hear- it.

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I like boy-shorts bathing suits and 1-peice tanks. cause well...I might dress all crazy, but I don't dress very skimpy. I like my boobs IN my top and not hanging out, y'know?

if you want a tank suit, try speedo, they don't do flowery, frilly fru-fru crap.

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I am not sure I will ever get used to the way you casually toss out things like "play with the Crown Prince."

I suppose perhaps it is a financial thing? It just...

Something about the way you say these things bothers me on a core level. I cannot put words to it.

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I know. It was a gut reaction, and a poor one.

I am sorry. I did not mean to imply anything in particular except that I was surprised.

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